Out of all the more recent discoveries reported lately, on worlds outside our own solar system, one new discovery could potentially be the most extraordinary we’ve seen to date: A new world known by scientists as 55 Cancri e, residing a mere 40 light-years away from Earth, could have volcanic activity. “It’s super exciting,” said […]

The story of Marc Cornelisen and his colleague, Philip DeRoo, is by turns comic and tragic, an epic that is nearly twenty years in the making. Cornelisen had been traveling out to the North Pole nearly every year since 1996, braving the extreme temperatures and seasons as an explorer and scientific researcher. He experienced firsthand […]

The Arctic might seem like a desolate place, but in fact new research suggests a lot of vibrant activity beneath its rapidly diminishing sheets of ice, with a rather surprising find hidden rather deep within the hydrothermal vents at the floor of the Arctic Ocean, where scientists discovered a new and unusual organism which may […]

A small brown sea lion who goes by the name “Rubbish” decided today to leave behind the ocean and instead tour the coastal city of San Francisco on foot, or rather flipper, on Thursday morning. Someone sighted the friendly creature near San Fran’s Marina District at about 7 a.m. and decided to call it in. […]

A recent report from the United Nations has revealed some unsettling figures, warning that our planet could experience a 40 percent shortage of usable water by the year 2030 unless countries begin to substantially cut back on its usage. Because 70 percent of fresh water in the world is used on irrigation and agriculture, the […]

Its sometimes difficult to notice, until you see the flow of brief, glowing patterns under the light – irridescence is more prevalent throughout the animal kingdom than you may realize, one of those traits that has long held a special place in evolution. Creatures as varied as the dragonfly, to the pond dwelling catfish and […]

If you were ever pressed to make a list of the planet’s most extreme desert regions, Antarctica probably would be one of the last places you’d look, but your list wouldn’t quite be complete without making mention of the McMurdo Dry Valleys. It’s one of the few regions in the Antarctic that remains untouched by […]

Up to one in six animal and plant species could vanish from the face of the Earth as casualties of climate change, according to the latest analysis. The new study was published on Thursday with the journal Science. If that’s hard news to take, it might get even worse. Mark Urban, who is an ecologist […]

A study of the ancient molecular clouds throughout our galaxy, has revealed that water, the compound necessary for sustaining life as we know it, has been around much longer than we realized. In fact, the earliest reservoirs in the universe may have appeared as soon as one billion years after the Big Bang event. The […]

It may have been the hottest recorded winter in 134 years, but much of the American Northeast endured freezing temperatures early this year, largely owing to a Polar Vortex that pushed seasonal sheets of ice across the Great Lakes in the Midwest. After an early spring, the ice has begun to clear away, and for […]